RichTextWidget

I am proud to be able to announce the new currency converter on Yahoo finance. Why? Because it is a perfect example of how a complex rich user interface can be built in an accessible manner. As the main developer, Dirk Ginader explains: About 9 months ago my fellow co-worker, the User Experience Designer Graham Read the rest…

We recently discussed the bane and choice of rich text editors and we have a new Hat in the ring. WysiHat is a new editor based on Prototype from 37signals: WysiHat is a WYSIWYG JavaScript framework that provides an extensible foundation to design your own rich text editor. WysiHat stays out of your way and Read the rest…

Whenever Abe Fettig is in town I think about how painful his live has been working with rich text editors :) Stuart Atkinson has kindly done a roundup of the state of rich text editors, and it covers: TinyMCE: There’s a modified version of this included in WordPress these days, and it’s extremely well supported Read the rest…

Jeremiah Grossman is known for his amazing Web security talks. Now though, along with Lex Arquette, he has come out with a Dojo powered project (using 1.0.2) Roxer which aims to be the easiest way to make a web page: Targeted mostly for novices, where with Roxer anyone can build just about any Web page Read the rest…

EditArea is a free JavaScript editor for source code. This editor is designed to edit source code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlight. Features Easy to integrate, only one script include and one function call Tabulation support (allow to write well formated Read the rest…

Alex is on a roll (just call him butter!) and has written about the state of browser WYSIWYG editing: The state of in-browser WYSIWYG is somewhere between pitiful and mind-numbingly painful. Opera and Safari have pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and soon all the major browsers will be at the same level of awful, Read the rest…

There are a couple of updates in the world of rich text controls. Ryan Johnson has created a new control: Control.TextArea. This is a very different tool, as it isn’t about WYSIWYG functionality, but rather building toolbar based text areas that wrap simple text. It has support for functionality such as Markdown, Textile, etc. Everything Read the rest…

If you are interested in the WYSIWYG race, then you have probably checked out Weebly. They relaunched this morning, adding the features: Bring your own domain, and we’ll still host your website at your domain for free. We’ve integrated SnipShot image editing so that users can edit, crop, resize and retouch images within the Weebly Read the rest…

Xopus is a browser based WYSIWYG editor that allows you to copy and paste from a Microsoft Word (or Open Office) document into the HTML page. This demo shows it in action. IE is the only browser supported in 3.1, but we have been promised that Firefox support is in the lab, and will be Read the rest…

Andrea Giammarchi has been working on an online JavaScript editor and debugger. The online editor combines a possible solution for byte family plugins, a global byteplug namespace object, and a portable Editor panel to test quickly JavaScript and/or html pages. Features realtime debug It allows developers to write and test code quickly using document.write, Read the rest…

skrbl pad is a simple scratch pad that allows you to “whiteboard” ideas at a sharable URL. It is a lot like Google Docs (Writely) and friends, but allows you to click absolutely everywhere, so a touch more free form.

We have often talked about the holy grail of a usable WYSIWYG CMS system where users build their website by just being on their website and editing layouts and pages. Kris Zyp is trying to do that with his new Authenteo system. We have released a beta version of our new development framework and content Read the rest…

Ben Nolan has created his take on an ajax’d up wysiwyg wiki called GroupsWiki. Some of the interesting features are: Always editing, users are always editing their wikis, we attach events to the links so that they can open new pages even while contenteditable is enabled. Ajax image insert using a micro-version of lightbox. We Read the rest…

Abe Fettig works on JotSpot, which has evolved its rich text editor as new releases have come out. People have a love hate relationship with WYSIWYG, especially developers, and Abe started out there: “I didn’t always like WYSIWYG” He starts off redefining what most people think of WYSIWYG. It doesn’t mean Microsoft Word. vi can Read the rest…

We recently covered the Dojo Rich Text Editor. Here’s FCKEditor, another widget that aims to be easy for users to work with and easy for developers to install and customise. Support for keyboard shortcuts is impressive, but the browser gets in the way sometimes. I got burned a couple of times with Cmd-Left, which in Read the rest…